craigzy:Inchoate: "You end up using your hands one two many times"? ...and then what happens, you sign Semin to a contract?

good effort

try the veal, kiss your waitress

Crosby reminds me of a guy on my soccer team. He's so skilled that he's clearly a little above everyone on the field. He gets very into the game, so much that he occasionally loses his cool with refs/players and does something petulant. But to his team members, he is ceaselessly encouraging, unselfish, and dedicated. Anyone who pays close attention to the Penguins can see the latter perspective. I can understand why Crosby sometimes frustrates people, though.

Recoil Therapy:ytterbium: I remember that all too vividly, are you all healed up now?

I wish, thanks for asking though. When I got out of the hospital the hole in my leg was roughly the diameter of a dinner plate. Today it has closed up to be roughly a saucer sized plate. So there is measurable progress but it is incredibly slow (which is understandable as my body pretty much has to rebuild everything from the muscle layer on up). I think the doc said that the healing progress is roughly a 1mm reduction every two weeks or about a 3cm reduction in size every year. That's actually pretty accurate in how fast it's going (it was 2011 not 2010 for those keeping score). So it sucks & affects everything else that I do, but it's the hand I was dealt so I play it as best I can.

That said though I'm very thankful that it is what it was as it could have been a WHOLE lot worse. My doc said that if I had waited one more day before going in I would have lost the leg, 3 more days & I'd probably have died. I went to see him 3 days after noticing the first (minor) symptom. It is scary just how fast this goes from meh to life threatening in a matter of a couple of days. But I make the best of it & do what I can. When you can only do so much you really figure out just what is important & what is just window dressing.

However enough of that, there's hockey going on, sad as it may be to those rooting for the Isles.

/EIP if you're interested/want to know more//don't want to threadjack too much

my gfs sis had bad headaches and a sore neck which she associated with being a CPA during tax-time. she finally went to the doc, it turns out its a tumor on the base of her skull. neurologist said if she waited another month she wouldve been christopher reeved. luckily, its benign, and her surgery is friday, but it really is amazing how fast these things can sneak up.

Pituophis:Donnchadha: And Kunitz. He was a journeyman average player before being on Crosby's wing.

Noooooooo. He had a 50 and a 60 point season in Anaheim, IIRC. In fact, I think he averaged over 40pts per year with the Ducks. And they were the team that drafted him, so not much of a journeyman.

But Crosby has made him even better, no doubt.

With your later correction, this is pretty much correct. He spent a couple of years here in Cincinnati with the Baby Ducks (AHL) before moving onto the big club where he set rookie records for # of points. Other than a couple of weeks with Atlanta before bouncing back to Anaheim doing the waiver dance, he's only been with the Ducks & Penguins so certainly not a journeyman.

As much as I don't particularly like the Penguins, I'm glad that Chris is on the line with Crosby. They work well together & each makes the other better (Chris benefiting much more than Syd of course...)

Malacon:All the complaining to refs, the temper tantrums, the post whistle jabs, third-man-in for fights, punches from behind etc detract from him as being a great player.

No, they don't.

He gets mentioned in the same breath as Gretzkty and won a Cup by age 22. Among scoring leaders every year, when he's healthy, and led the league this year while he was still injured for quite some time.

Did he make mistakes as a new NHLer? Sure he did, but to say that any of that garbage detracts from the best NHL superstar in a generation? No, that's dumb.

Donnchadha:Malacon: PowerSlacker: This thread makes me wonder how much ridiculous hate Gretzky would have gotten if the Internet was around when he was the man.

Not nearly as much as you think. Regardless of what happened on the ice he didn't run his mouth to the press. He won the Lady Byng a few times too, iirc

It helps when you can get away with murder

Yes, murder is repositioning after a shot and getting caught initially on the leg of a player to cause a high stick which hit the chin. Sorry, Gretzky had penalties as any player did, but Crosby has played dirty and whined, which has fortunately settled as he continues to play.

Vangor:Donnchadha: Malacon: PowerSlacker: This thread makes me wonder how much ridiculous hate Gretzky would have gotten if the Internet was around when he was the man.

Not nearly as much as you think. Regardless of what happened on the ice he didn't run his mouth to the press. He won the Lady Byng a few times too, iirc

It helps when you can get away with murder

Yes, murder is repositioning after a shot and getting caught initially on the leg of a player to cause a high stick which hit the chin. Sorry, Gretzky had penalties as any player did, but Crosby has played dirty and whined, which has fortunately settled as he continues to play.

crosby is 100x the whiney biatch than gretzky. wayne-o almost never said anything

Vangor:Yes, murder is repositioning after a shot and getting caught initially on the leg of a player to cause a high stick which hit the chin. Sorry, Gretzky had penalties as any player did, but Crosby has played dirty and whined, which has fortunately settled as he continues to play.

Yeah, trolling a bit with that one... do you think I can get Hull's No Goal into conversation later?

1)Post 'shops, macros and images hyping your team.2)Post 'shops, macros and images mocking your teams opponent3)Cindy Criesby4)WTF is up with these start times?5)Oh God ________ is reffing tonight6)Smug Detroit fans7)Annoying Leafs fans8)ITG Bruins Fans9)Rioting Canucks fans10)Incomprehensible Habs fans11)Trolling for Penguins fans12)__________ is strong in this advanced stat13)__________ is weak in this advanced sat14)Neither team has the edge in this advanced stat15)This advanced stat is constantly overlooked16)STFU about advanced stats17)ICE GIRLS!!!!18)Southeast Division complaining19)Giant, in depth post from desertgeek20)Why is this guy in the lineup?21)Why isn't this guy in the lineup?22)Someone gives up mid-game and goes looking for beer23)Someone comes back late and finds their team has tied/taken the lead24)BONUS HOCKEY!25)SOON.jpg26)The nightly Don Cherry outfit image27)The Docisms of Doc Emrick28)In between periods/tv break NSFW links29)toomuchman.jpg30)Muting Pierre MacGuire31)Active stick32)TIED!!!!33)(Goalies name here) says NO!